Abstract:As transistors become increasingly smaller and faster and noise margins become tighter, circuits and chip specially microprocessors tend to become more vulnerable to permanent and transient hardware faults. Most microprocessor designers focus on protecting memory elements among other parts of microprocessors against hardware faults through adding redundant error-correcting bits such as parity bits. How ever, the rate of soft errors in combinational parts of microprocessors is consider edas important as in sequ… Show more
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